Best 209 quotes in «opera quotes» category

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

I want to do rock operas.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.